The guy pictured above is 21-year-old Matthew McCoin.
Don’t let his baby-faced soft cheeks and innocent looks fool you. Although he looks like he should be helping your grandmother cross a dangerous intersection, he’s an enterprising young contraband capitalist.
Yesterday afternoon, The Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office announced that McCoin – an Oklahoma County Detention Officer – was arrested for selling tobacco to inmates in the Oklahoma County jail.
Here are the details via a media release:
It’s 420! If you don’t know what that means, then you are not the typical TLO reader now are ya? This special day is celebrated all over and is probably a lot more fun in places like California, Washington and Colorado. But, here in Oklahoma, there are people who believe marijuana should be legal and hell, it could even help to fund our schools! So, light up and enjoy this very special holiday!
Who says Oklahoma politicians can’t get anything done?
Earlier today, Mary Fallin signed into law HB 3473. It designates the contemporary Christian classic “I Can Only Imagine”– which was of course written by a native Texan – as the official inspirational song of Oklahoma. It was the basis for the Oklahoma-filmed Christian movie of the same name that Louis was in.
I listened to the song for the first time earlier today. It inspired me to take a nap. Check it out:
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Many times, when my Caucasian amigos go for a night out at the movies with me, I tend to slightly embarrass them by going full Latino and pulling out a spare crying baby about 15 minutes into the feature.
Bromeando, bromeando.
But I do manage to raise some eyebrows, drop some jaws and rumble some tummies, however, because as soon as the lights go down, the snack-bar in mis pantalones is open for business as I start uncovering and unwrapping a wide variety of confecciones y concesiones that no lobby this side of the border would bother to stock, much to the chagrin of la Raza and the good money we just threw down to see the latest summer blockbusters such as The Avengers: Infinity War, Solo: A Star Wars Story and the most recent La India Maria comedy.
A seemingly ancient tradition passed down from generación a generación ever since Pedro Infante first charroed his way across the silver screen, like Jesus and his loaves and fishes, penny-pinching Latina mothers and grandmothers have managed to economically reason and magically position entire buffets in their handbags just to avoid paying five dollars for a soda, feeding a handful of familial seat-fillers with a diverse range of eats at a mere fraction of the price.
The overpriced popcorn is played out, yesterday’s frankfurters are for the dogs and sorry bro, but those barely qualify as nachos. But, now a bagful of manager’s special pan dulce or last night’s leftover chuletas de puerco still wrapped in the foil…who needs a trip to the theater lobby when your neighborhood mercado has an even wider variety of pelicula-ready refreshments specifically designed to crunch and/or munch while sitting in a darkened theater?
When it comes to me and my own cinema snackage, before most movie screenings (and especially in the case for this article) I’ll typically head over to one of the most underrated and underappreciated grocery stores in the Metro, the Buy for Less Supermercado at 3713 S Western Ave., and load up on more than enough movie munchies for usually under five bucks, if that. So, with that preamble said and done, here are my six favorite Latino goodies to illicitly grub on in the movie theater. Cómpralo ya!
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Mazapan
Who needs a pinche half-filled box of Butterfinger Bites or some similarly cost-prohibitive candy when you can nibble on a peanut-buttery compounded puck of somewhat-sweet mazapan candy for an hour and a half? Aye carumba! While the crumbly nature and gritty texture might take a minute or so to learn how to exactly maneuver, once snacking commences, this pocket-sized candy is far more satisfying than any Snickers, with an almost supernatural in its ability to make anyone who munches on it feel like they’ve had a full meal. Or two.
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Chicharróns
